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It’s probably fair to say that the information, communications and technology (ICT) industry is littered with the corpses of failed joint ventures, business partnerships and strategic collaborations that never quite achieved the ambitions of the parties involved. It’s an important remind...

In a recent Heavy Reading blog (reprinted below) on Three UK’s new approach to assurance for their fully integrated cloud native core network – a world first – it is clear that leading CSPs are integrating evolved and state-of-the-art assurance capabilities from the very beginning ...

Secondary or sub-brands are certainly nothing new in the mobile communications industry. Indeed, many mobile operators have used one or several sub-brands to target different sections of the market, with varying degrees of success.
In recent years, sub-brands have become an important tool f...

From reading the latest headlines in the media, you would think that the only things telcos care about right now are 5G, NFV/SDN and IoT devices. While this may be valid for the upper echelons of mobile and fixed network operators, it is not the case for many telcos. Indeed, a large number of them a...

QoS Challenges in the NFV/5G networks
NFV-core based 5G networks have already caught the fancy of the Telco Cloud service provider. The reasons for this are its promise of high QoS.
High speed/throughput, high reliability, low latency, high capacity, high availability, high connectivity and dynam...

The ability to make and receive calls is the lifeblood of any customer-facing enterprise, while conventional fixed telephony systems are becoming something of an anachronism as people now favour mobile devices. The question that most SMEs should now be asking their IT departments is: do we still nee...

Digitization of businesses and virtualization of networks promise business benefits but are also introducing new challenges for the communications service providers.
Ongoing exponential increase in data consumption by subscribers, especially of video applications and OTT, has taken a toll on the ...

As the SDN and NFV train steams further on its journey towards network revolution, has the industry stopped to consider the wider impact? Is the infrastructure in place to serve the demands of the new system?
Trials continue with a bout of enthusiasm for the potential of SDN and NFV, which ...

Coming out and ranting against federated inventory has been interesting given the amount of anonymous feedback I have received. Anyone wanting to talk about it, let’s connect at TMF next week!
First, any reasonable order management or workflow product out there regardless of federated data ...

Communications service providers (CSPs) have, over many years, become besotted by different forms of assurance. I’m not talking about insurance here; it’s more about making sure things work properly they way they were designed to and the way customers expect them to work.
Depending on...

Supply and demand is the most important relationship between operators and users. It is also a relationship that is now undergoing a profound change because of one single development: the fact that today’s users are always connected to a smartphone or tablet.
As well as being “always ...

What is the future of On-Line Social Communities?

I read that T-Mobile International and Nokia Corp. have announced that they are collaborating to accelerate the availability of new Internet services and personal social communities on mobile devices.By signing this collaboration agreement, T-Mobile and Nokia will be able to offer their European customers faster and easier access to all of T-Mobile's web'n'walk Internet services as well as to all Nokia's Ovi Internet services on a wide range of Nokia devices. Do you think that this step forward will attract more users to online communities, and will this type of service ever compete with SMS in the future?

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Isaac Alegre
From my perspective, the only measure that have chances to succeed is a free access service. Otherwise, people will not be using social networks on their handsets

19 June 2008

Michael WarrenYou've really got to hand it to the cell phone companies. They convinced the TDM circuit-switched world, which was powered by the telco and habituated to the Bell System reliablility standard of 99.9995%, that a "data-switched", power-it-yourself, you-don... moreYou've really got to hand it to the cell phone companies. They convinced the TDM circuit-switched world, which was powered by the telco and habituated to the Bell System reliablility standard of 99.9995%, that a "data-switched", power-it-yourself, you-don't-know-when-the-damn-thing-will-work phone is PROGRESS. They've sliced and diced their market of adolescent nincompoops such that they will buy every separate goodie bundle inteneded to greatly expand their air time. That market also believes that "texting" is talking. That market will readily adopt social networking on handsets, IF it is bundled with unique content on the social network. Adults won't buy it just to be connected to something cool. The Hype Phase of the electronic communications market has ended. We are now in the The Reality Phase. The same thing happened to the Hype Phases of Relational Databases, Client-Server software architecture, and Object Oriented Programming. When the Technology Vehicle is no longer new, and the Great Expectations have ... less

23 June 2008

Nigel DeightonWell I guess I'll take a different view, about the only technology in the world with higher adoption and "personal value" is probably wristwatches.....................and I know folks who no longer wear them because their mobile can tell them the time.moreWell I guess I'll take a different view, about the only technology in the world with higher adoption and "personal value" is probably wristwatches.....................and I know folks who no longer wear them because their mobile can tell them the time.

Mobile phones are personal devices and so far the mobile phone industry, globally, has done a dreadfull job of maximising the value of the "personal" aspect of portable devices. We seem stuck in a mode of "mobilising the Internet" as opposed to creating a mobile lifestyle (and work is part of that) environment.

Today's Internet/Web etc means you need to know what you want/need and then search for it..............whereas using location, presence, preferences, context and other elements means mobile devices could tell you what you did not know you needed to know...........ie you just entered a high personal risk area ....... or your best friends are having a beer just down the road.

Werner SeitzSocial Communities open new areas of communication. To be connected and to show the presence status opens efficient communication to your networks on business and private level. The mobilization of social networks will open next step in worldwide communic... moreSocial Communities open new areas of communication. To be connected and to show the presence status opens efficient communication to your networks on business and private level. The mobilization of social networks will open next step in worldwide communicction: At any time everywhere with anyone. Due to the fact that the mobile device is with you day and night, during business and during spare times, mobile social communities are constantly connected. This fact generates a high potential of interest by the adv industries and for mobile market. Interactive brand communication will substitue static advertisement and bring the revenue for the operators of these communities. less

1 August 2008

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